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Of Long and Forgery

12 May 1802

Times 27 May 1802. Evidence suppression punished with 6 months imprisonment.

At the very title of this section, I see Your Lordship
start: on the one hand a man high in Office
doing that sort of thing, for which a man deserves a halter by which so many obtain wretches obtain:
or on the other hand a man {hitherto once thought worthy of
being in office, and} hitherto without reproach, saying that
sort of thing for which, if it were false, or at any rate
if he did not believe it to be true, he would deserve the
pillory.

A sad alternative in truth were it the only only: fortunately but happily
there is neither halter nor pillory in this case.

That I accuse Mr Long: now for the Right Honourable
Charles Long of forgery is true enough: but it is not
precisely that sort of thing which has been presented to occurred to your
Your Lordship conception by the letters of which the word forgery
Lordship in the first
is composed. It is not positive forgery that I accuse
him of: it is nothing more than negative: of that sort
of act which, were it not for the warrant which Your Lordship will find me in possession of I possess
I should have contented myself with calling by the fable and
imperfectly expressive compound denomination of suppression
of evidence.

It may appear to Your Lordship that notwithstanding
this explanation the appellation is an unwarrantable
one: that it is the offspring of that sort of passion
that may naturally enough be supposed predominant to have found its way in
rather more than a due proportion into a breast circumstanced like
mind: that it is a strain put upon words and such
an one as in the present case at least ought not to have been put in the present case: that it that it it is, if not "torguere
<hi rend="underline">"leges", torquere voces, "ad hoc et torqucant hominem".

Identifier: | JB/120/089/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 120.
Date_1	1802-05-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	1
Box	120	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	089	Info in main headings field	long and forgery
Image	001	Titles	of long and forgery
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	[[notes_public::"times 27 may 1802 evidence suppression punished with 6 months imprisonmt" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	39915
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